Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-11-08 Severity: wishlist * Package name : cfengine2 Version : 2.0.a14 Upstream Author : Mark Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cfengine.org/ * License : GPL version 2 Description : Tool for configuring and maintaining network machines
This package contains an ALPHA version of cfengine version 2. The author claims that it's at least as stable as cfengine 1.6 but your milage may vary. . The main purpose of cfengine is to allow the system administrator to create a single central file which will define how every host on a network should be configured. . cfengine is also useful as an interpreter for a general scripting language for ordinary users. It is handy for tidying up junk files and for maintaining `watchdog' scripts to manage access rights and permissions on files when collaborating with other users. . It takes a while to set up cfengine for a network (especially an already existing network), but once that is done you will wonder how you ever lived without it! I've spoken with Tollef Fog Heen, the maintainer of the 'cfengine' package, and he's happy for me to do this. [Please Cc me on followups] -- Andrew Stribblehill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems programmer, IT Service, University of Durham, England